Nazrul Islam

List of Publications and Research Papers:

A)                Publication-Books

1.                  Karl Marx and Max Weber: Perspectives on Theory and Domination. with  B.K. Jahangir and S.I. Khan (eds.). Dhaka: Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences, University of Dhaka, 1988.

2.                  The American City. with F. Alam (eds.). Dhaka: Bangladesh Association for American Studies. 1990.

3.                  Sociology, Health, Women And Environment. Editor. Dhaka: Bangladesh Sociological Association. 1999.

4.                  Culture, Patrimonialism and Religion: Revisiting Max Weber. Editor. Dhaka: Goethe-Institut. 2004.

5.             End of Sociological Theory and Other Essays in Sociological Theory and Research. (In press)

B)               Publication-Reviews and Articles

1.                  Book Review: "Bangladesh: Equitable Growth?" Journal of Political and Military Sociology. 8.1.1980.

2.                  Book Review: "The Creation of World Poverty: An Alternative View of the Brandt Report." The Journal of Social Studies. 18 (October) 1982, Pp. 161-163.

3.                  Article: "Direct Foreign Investment in the Third World: A Reappraisal". The Journal of Social Studies. 19 (January) 1983. Pp. 73-102.

4.                  Review Article: "The State, Industrialization and Class Formation in India". The Journal of Social Studies. 20 (April) 1983. Pp. 134-152.

5.                  Article: "Phenomenology, Sociology and Phenomenological Sociology". Sociological Bulletin. 32 (September). 1983. Pp. 134-152.

6.                  Book Review: "Statistics are for the People". The Journal of Social Studies. 24 (April) 1984. Pp. 112-115.

7.                  Article: "Religiosity of the Sociology Students of Dhaka University". The Dhaka University Studies. 40 (June) 1984. Pp. 60-89.

8.                  Article: "The Paradigmatic Status of Sociology". Social Science Review.             1 (December) 1984. Pp. 130-157.

9.                  Chapter: "Hypothesis" (With S. Rahman) in National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) Monograph, Basic Methods of Evaluative and Action Research. Dhaka: NIPORT. 1984. Pp. 22-30.

10.             Article: "Theories of Alienation: Marx, Weber and Mannheim in Comparative Perspective". The Dhaka University Studies. 42 (June) 1984.

11.             Comments: "Changing Pattern of Social Structure in Rural Bangladesh". Bangladesh Studies. Edited by M.M. Khan and S.A. Hussain. Dhaka: Center for Administrative Studies. 1985, Pp. 89.

12.             Article: "On the Question of Validation in Qualitative Methodology". Social Science Review. 3 (June) 1, 1986. Pp. 16-31.

13.             Book Review: "Bangladesher Krishak Shamaj O Unnayan (the Agrarian Structure, Peasant Society and Development)". Asian Affairs.  9.2. 1987. Pp. 92-96.

14.             Article: "American Sociology: Crisis in Isolation". Bangladesh Journal of American Studies. 1 (Winter) 1987. Pp. 67-71.

15.             Article: "Defining Intellectuals in a Peripheral Society", in B.M. Chowdhury and S.Z. Sadeque edited Bangladesh: Social Structure and Development. Dhaka: Bangladesh Sociological Association. 1988. Pp. 28-39.

16.             Article: "Crisis of Intellectuals in a Peripheral Society: The Case of Bangladesh-1947 to 1981". With S.A. Islam in B.K. Jahangir edited Social Science Perspective. Dhaka: Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences, University of Dhaka. 1988. Pp. 133-199.

17.             Article: "From Ideal Type to Pure Type: Weber's Transition from History to Sociology", in B.K. Jahangir, N. Islam and S.I. Khan edited Karl Marx and Max Weber: Perspectives on Theory and Domination. Dhaka: Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences, University of Dhaka. 1988. Pp. 93-110.

18.             Article: "Early Sociological and Marxist Positivism", in B.K. Jahangir, N. Islam and S.I. Khan edited Karl Marx and Max Weber: Perspectives on Theory and Domination. Dhaka: Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences, University of Dhaka. 1988. Pp. 1-15.

19.             Article: "Sociology of Development: In Need of Fresh Paradigm?" Sociology and Development: Bangladesh Perspectives. Edited by K.A.M. Saaduddin and Board of Editors. Dhaka: Bangladesh Sociological Association. 1990. Pp. 33-52.

20.             Article: "A Dissenter's Note on the Population Problem", Sociology and Development: Bangladesh Perspectives. Edited by K.A.M. Saaduddin and Board of Editors. Dhaka: Bangladesh Sociological Association. 1990. Pp. 249-255.

21.             Keynote Paper: "Migration, Migrants, and the U.S.A.", in N. Zaman and K.U. Ahmed edited Migration, Migrants and the United States. Dhaka: Bangladesh Association for American Studies. 1992. Pp. 1-6.

22.             Article: "America, the Final Frontier: A Re-examination of F.J. Turner's Thesis of the Frontier". in N. Zaman and K.U. Ahmed ed. Migration, Migrants, and the United States. Dhaka: Bangladesh Association for American Studies. 1992. Pp. 51-63.

23.             Article: "Family Theory and Family in the United States". with S. Aminul Islam in F. Alam, S.I. Khan and N. Zaman edited Proceedings of the 1993 BAAS-USIS Regional American Studis Conference. Dhaka: BAAS: USIS 1995. Pp. 125-142.

24.             Article: "Defining Pop-Culture". Bangladesh Journal of American Studies. Vols. 9-10. 1996. Pp. 1-4.

25.             Article: "Sociology in Bangladesh", with S. Aminul Islam in Contemporary Sociology. Vol. 26. No. 5 (September), 1997. Pp. 566-568.

26.             Article: "Social Inequality in the U.S." in M. Abdul Halim and Tahmina Ahmed ed. Markin Juktorashtro: Shamaj O Shangskriti (U.S. Society and Culture). No. 7, 1998. Pp. 37-45.

27.             Article: "New York, New York", in M. Imdadul Haque and M. Nazrul Islam eds. Markin Juktorashtro: Shomaj O Shagskriti (U.S. Society and Culture). No. 8 1999. Pp. 18-35.

28.             Article: "End of Sociological Theory: Implications and Lessons for Bangladesh". with M. Imdadul Haque in Nazrul Islam edited Sociology, Health, Women and Environment. Dhaka: Bangladesh Sociological Association. 1999. Pp. 9-19.

29.             Article: “Protestant Ethic and the Not-so-Sociology of World Religions”. Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology Vol. 1. No. 1 (Winter)  January 2004

30.      Article: "Sociology in the 21st Century: Facing a Dead End". Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology. Vol. 1. No. 2.(Summer) July 2004.

31.                  Article: “World Bank Data of Poverty and Poverty of World Bank Data.” Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology.  Vol. 2. No. 1 (Winter)  January 2005.

32.                  Book Review: “Shifting Paradigms of Development”. Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology.  Vol. 2. No. 1 (Winter)  January 2005.

 

 

C)               Papers Accepted for Publication

1.      "Regional Inequalities in the US", to be published by BAAS as a part of the proceedings of the BAAS-USIS conference.

 

D)                Unpublished Papers

1.                  "Diffusion of Innovations in Birth Control Devices - A Study in Rural-Urban Contrast". Report presented to the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh. 1976.

2.                  "Weber and the Two Ideal Types". 1976.

3.                  "The Colonial Bureaucracy in India: A modification of the Ideal Type". Incomplete M.A. Thesis. 1976.

4.                  "Aliention in Max Weber's Theory". 1977.

5.                  "A Cross-Cultural Application of the Faulkner and DeJong Scale of Religiosity". 1977.

6.                  "Influence of Sex, Religion, Siblings and Year of Schooling on the Fertility Desires of the Students of Syracuse University". 1977.

7.                  "Personal Space in a Cafeteria Setting". 1978.

8.                  "The Emergence and the Decline of a Bengali Entrepreneurial Class". 1979.

9.                  "Labor Force Participation of U.S. Women: A Review of Literature". 1979.

10.             "Asiatic or the Lumpen Mode of Production". 1990.